Thank you beppe. I've learned a few interesting things about Italian neorealism having this conversation with you (I suppose if it wins, I'll learn a few more things about it too!)

Regarding The Tibetan Book Of The Dead, it seems best if rescinding a nomination is mostly only done if the nomination is decided to be ineligible. This instance though seems fine, considering that taosaur stated a preference for Montaillou in the original nomination post but didn't realise that it would be eligible, and also considering that no one has seconded the original nomination yet.

So as of now The Tibetan Book Of The Dead is not nominated yet, and Montaillou is.

Personally I am interested in both of them. The Tibetan Book Of The Dead is on my longlist of books to read, and seeing it nominated piqued my interest again. I haven't heard of Montaillou before, but it sounds very interesting.

^sun surfer
I am sorry to create troubles or problems.
I would like to retire my nomination of the occult Philisophy. There are no other votes than mine.
I would like to use my recovered vote for fifthing Christ stopped at Eboli.
Would that be possible?
Thank you.

Indeed. Some fresh avatars to provide more endorsements of those on the existing list would be nice. Or to provide a new selection that would catch fire. On the other hand if it ends up as just a head-to-head competition between People Of The Abyss and Insurgent Mexico it would be just a matter of how soon I would read one of the two that will both be read by me before long.

^sun surfer
I am sorry to create troubles or problems.
I would like to retire my nomination of the occult Philisophy. There are no other votes than mine.
I would like to use my recovered vote for fifthing Christ stopped at Eboli.
Would that be possible?
Thank you.

It's better not to set a precedent for this sort of thing. It doesn't seem like a good idea to rescind a less popular nomination to support a more popular one.

I have a question, however. Based on what Sun Sufer said about not setting a precedent by recinding a nomination, it would seem to be that "Bardo Thopal" not be recinded and replaced with "Montaillou". Sun Surfer, I need your ruling here.

We have four fully nominated books so far! One more fully nominated book will put us at five. There's a few more hours left to vote.

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Originally Posted by Vandy

I have a question, however. Based on what Sun Sufer said about not setting a precedent by recinding a nomination, it would seem to be that "Bardo Thopal" not be recinded and replaced with "Montaillou". Sun Surfer, I need your ruling here.

Thanks, Vandy. Mainly I think the change to that nomination is fine because taosaur had said in the nomination post that s/he'd prefer the other one but didn't realise it was eligible. Even so, it still wouldn't have been good to change if it had gotten a second, but it hadn't so I didn't see any harm since that situation was pretty unusual. Montaillou would've been nominated either way since taosaur has one nomination left; the change just seemed like the nice thing to do in case s/he wanted to use that last nomination on something else. The precedent I didn't want to set was for the more general reasons beppe wanted to rescind a nomination.

I don't think there's a hard and fast rule here - just for the most part, rescinding a nomination doesn't seem like a good idea unless the nomination turns out to be ineligible. I trust us all to rescind responsibly.